'If you're not trying to land a touch, you're not playing the game properly'
Lewis Porteous talks to the North Yorkshire trainer enjoying a remarkable season
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Grant Tuer's decision to branch out from the blood, sweat and tears of farming for the haphazard world of training racehorses might bring to mind frying pans and fires, but after a morning at his North Yorkshire yard it is crystal clear he knows exactly what he is doing.
A sucker for punishment perhaps, but Tuer is a man with a plan and his career-best 33 winners so far in 2021, along with 39 full boxes and the hum of JCB diggers working away at his Northallerton base, is a sure sign that plan is taking shape.
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Copy- 'Other trainers say how difficult it is to get staff, but I can't say the same - when people come here, they seem to stay'
- 'People love having horses with Willy rather than a miserable git like me'
- 'It's tough financially and last year I said I might get a job driving a lorry instead - although to be fair I'd probably crash!'
- 'I'm not here to tell people how to train but if you hide something from me, I'm gone, I'm done - and you won't see me again'
- 'I had to fly back from Saudi on the day for the awards before flying back the following day but it really was a great evening'
- 'Other trainers say how difficult it is to get staff, but I can't say the same - when people come here, they seem to stay'
- 'People love having horses with Willy rather than a miserable git like me'
- 'It's tough financially and last year I said I might get a job driving a lorry instead - although to be fair I'd probably crash!'
- 'I'm not here to tell people how to train but if you hide something from me, I'm gone, I'm done - and you won't see me again'
- 'I had to fly back from Saudi on the day for the awards before flying back the following day but it really was a great evening'